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Title: The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Fifty years a city
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Rice, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1852-1919, ed
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- Description and travel Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: Worcester, Mass., F. S. Blanchard & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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5 28 611,360 627,766 1,010,720 479 185,359 Photographs and photo- graphic materials, . 19 23 48,780 40,946 220,719 49 25,626 Polishes and dressing, . 4 6 15.630 22,052 30,600 6 2,886 Printing, publishing and book-binding. 40 96 379.298 161,142 650,995 437 237,864 Print works, dye works and bleacheries, 6 10 56,016 97,284 167,583 86 46,228 Railroad construction and equipment. 3 2 261,500 77,562 132,170 106 49.896 Saddlery and harness, . >7 19 16,352 18,944 53.3o 31 18,601 Scientific instruments and appliances. 7 25 7.5° 12,195 33.144 10 4,730 Stone 12 25 181,770 38.S97 145,244 134 62,262 Tallow, candles, soap and grease. 5 5 56,270 87,027 119,083 33 17.794 Tobacco, snuff and cigars. 19 25 43.340 34.537 111,809 74 38.784 Wooden goods. 21 51 216,025 225,024 453,572 242 131,687 Woolen goods, 10 20 725.450 750.975 1,461,372 857 338,969 Other industries, . 40 273 2,377.671 1,861,967 3,431,140 1,726 756,426 All Lndustries, 1415 3298 $22,766,714 $20,072,858 $41,082,611 21,733 $10,265,179
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The Worcester of 1898. 457 WIBE. Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Co. —The wire manufactory of theWashburn & Moen Corporation maintains in the year 1898 the place ithas held during the half century as the largest single industrial enterprisein Worcester. This great establishment, which gives employment to 4,000persons, and indirectly supports several times that number, is the outcomeof the small beginning made in 1831 by Ichabod Washburn, who, in com-pany with Benjamin Goddard, entered into the manufacture of wire in awooden building at Northville, occupied in part by C. Read & Company,makers of wood screws, whom Mr. Washburn had induced to come toWorcester from Providence and set up their business. It was in connectionwith screw-making that Mr. Washburn produced his first wire, and suc-cessfully meeting the requirements of this trade he very soon turned hisattention to the manufacture of wire for other and more general purposes,especially for cotton and woolen cards. Three

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